Hon.  D. W. Carnegie
jarrah forest, west Australia
general store and post-office, coolgardie, 1892
the first hotel at coolgardie
the “Gold escort”
Grass trees, near Perth
death of “Tommy”
Fresh meat at last
Bayley street, coolgardie, 1894
condensing water on A salt lake
fever-stricken and alone
miner’s right
typical sandstone gorge
crossing A salt lake
entrance to Empress spring
at work in the cave, Empress spring
Alexander spring
Woodhouse lagoon
A buck and his gins in camp at family well
cresting A sand-ridge
Helena spring
the only specimen of desert architecture
the mad buck
Southesk tablelands
A native hunting party
plan of sand-ridges
exaggerated Section of the sand-ridges
Charles W. Stansmore
native preparing for the emu dance
spears
tomahawks
boomerangs
clubs and throwing-sticks
shields
quartz knife
ceremonial sticks
rain-making boards
message sticks
group of explorers
just in time
A wild escort of nearly one hundred men
establishing friendly relations
the tail-end of A miserable caravan
A Karri timber train
A pearl shell station, Broome, N.W.  Australia

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PART I EARLY DAYS IN COOLGARDIE

CHAPTER I

EARLY DAYS IN THE COLONY

In the month of September, 1892, Lord Percy Douglas (now Lord Douglas of Hawick) and I, found ourselves steaming into King George’s Sound—­that magnificent harbour on the south-west coast of Western Australia—­building castles in the air, discussing our prospects, and making rapid and vast imaginary fortunes in the gold-mines of that newly-discovered land of Ophir.  Coolgardie, a district then unnamed,